hawking's weblog http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/gentoo/ quark! quark! beware the quantum duck! en-us hawking 2008-06-30T22:43:34+03:00 http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/06/30/vote_now/ Vote now! 2008-06-30T22:32:56+03:00 hawking english, gentoo Not much left and more than half of us haven't voted yet!
Vote NOW!

Voted]]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/06/26/paludis-utils/ paludis-utils 2008-06-26T18:00:57+03:00 hawking paludis, english, gentoo, python paludis-utils is a paludis replacement for portage-utils. It uses paludis python bindings. Currently there are four applets available: 
alip@trippin> p
Usage: p <applet> <args>
Invoke a paludis-utils applet

Currently defined applets:
p <applet> <args>    : Virtual applet
patom [options] <pkgname>  : Split atom strings
pfile [options] <filename> : List packages owning files
plist [options] <pkgname>  : List contents of packages matching requirements
psize [options] <pkgname>  : Calculate size of installed packages
Contributions are welcome :-)]]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/19/latest_news_from_gentoopython/ Latest news from Gentoo/Python 2008-04-19T02:01:28+03:00 hawking english, gentoo, python
  • Buffer overflow in zlib extension, CVE-2008-1721.
    Gentoo bug: 217221
    Upstream bug: 2586
    Upstream fix: r62235
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.3.6-r5, 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
  • PyString_FromStringAndSize() unsafe
    Upstream bug: 2587
    Upstream fix: r62262
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.3.6-r5, 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
  • distutils doesn't respect CXXFLAGS
    Gentoo bug: 145206
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
    Thanks to Mark Peloquin for the patch.
  • Thread unsafe file objects
    Upstream bugs: 595601, 815646
    Upstream fix: r62195
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.5.2-r1
  • a bunch of infinite C recursions
    Upstream bug: 1202533
    Upstream fix: r58032
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.5.2-r1

I've also added wininst USE flag fixing bug 198021 and converted nothreads and nocxx USE flags to threads and cxx adding USE defaults. The only issue left is internal build of libffi - bug 209673 - which should wait until some issues about libffi is clarified.

If you're using a python extension written in C++ like wxpython, reemerge it to make use of your CXXFLAGS.

This is all for now. Have a nice weekend :-)

]]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/06/viewing_man_pages_with_vim/ viewing man pages with vim 2008-04-06T12:29:17+03:00 hawking english, gentoo, vim bug 212844 which was a problem about vimmanpager and colour codes. You'll have to reinstall vim to get the updated vimmanpager.

To use vimmanpager as your default man pager build vim with vim-pager USE flag and set the environment variable MANPAGER to vimmanpager.

For those who want to use the command :Man from within vim, here is a trick to get things right. Add the following lines to your vimrc: 
" make :Man command avaliable
source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim
" Default MANPAGER vimmanpager doesn't play well
" with the :Man command and we don't want to see raw colour codes
" so we use sed to strip them.
let $MANPAGER = "sed -e 's:\\x1B\\[[[:digit:]\\+m::g'"

Happy vimming :-)]]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/04/back/ back 2008-04-04T12:37:00+03:00 hawking english, gentoo dissociative identity disorder. Currently I'm using olanzapine to keep myself in reality and sertraline to have a good mood. I stopped school until september. I'll spend this time doing my usual gentoo work and reading some books which I couldn't read due to lack of time.

I'm slowly recovering and started to commit fixes to our CVS. I'm taking things slow though. Fortunately dev-zero is back and lordvan requested to take care of twisted packages.

I've updated my blog and added haloscan comment support and buttons to ease submitting to digg, del.icio.us, furl, reddit, slashdot and stumble upon.

This post is meant as an explanation for my slacking in the last months :).]]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2007/07/11/python_developers_guide_2/ python developers guide 2 2007-07-11T05:07:47+03:00 hawking english, gentoo, python
Thanks nightmorph for correcting my crappy grammar and guide-xml ;)]]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2007/06/30/python_developers_guide/ python developers guide 2007-06-30T21:10:29+03:00 hawking english, gentoo, python Gentoo Python Developers Guide is rather superficial thus I decided to improve it which can be helpful for everyone writing ebuilds for python packages. The initial version is here. It's far from perfect now but well it's a start :).]]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2007/06/29/let_it_roll/ let it roll! 2007-06-29T03:28:45+03:00 hawking english, gentoo Haven't found any time to blog for a while.. I became a gentoo developer which is nice cause now I'm able to contribute even more to my lovely distro :). I've joined netmon and python herds and started to fix bugs.

Real life is really sucky right now. Summer school started and we still couldn't rent a flat which we've been planning for about 6 months now. Hopefully when we do it, my friend who works at a translation office as a part time job and I can help translating docs and gwn into turkish.

Oh and about the title.. The first song I listened as a gentoo dev was roadhouse blues by the doors :).

]]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2007/04/28/repo_url_change/ repo url change 2007-04-28T22:41:15+03:00 hawking english, gentoo svn switch --relocate svn://svn.nonlogic.org/hawking/gentoo svn://svn.nonlogic.org/hawking/hawking-overlay ]]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2007/04/06/sun_is_rising/ sun is rising :) 2007-04-06T06:21:11+03:00 hawking english, gentoo At last I completed my ebuild quiz today - many thanks to jokey - and became a sunrise trusted commiter :). Now I can get stuff into sunrise w/o getting them reviewed. yay!

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